oe THE PERIODICAL CICADA. 
yet adetachment of it certainly occurs in Ohio, for Mr. Clarke Irvine, of Oregon, 
Holt County, Missouri, well remembers their occurrence in central Ohio in 1845 and 
1852. Though there is no knowledge of the appearance of this Brood XIV in Illinois, yet 
the fact of its ocenrring both in Ohio and in northern Missouri, and that, too, but one 
year after Brood XILI, wonld indicate that there may have been in times past, at all 
events, if there is not at the present day, a geographical connection between these 
two broods. 
1879.—This brood was well recorded in 1879 from Missouri and espee- 
ially Kansas. while reports from other States give it a much wider ex- 
tension in the trans-Mississippi States than was previously recorded. 
The reports from Missouri do not add anything new, since they all 
come from the northwestern portion of the State, where the brood was 
already by well-established previous visits, and 1 would only mention 
that, according to Mrs. Barbara M. Shiesl (letter of June 16, 1879), 
Saint Joseph belongs to those cities which have had this brood within 
their limits. 
In Kansas the extent of the brood has been studied by our trusted 
correspondent Mr. Robert Milliken, of Emporia, who wrote meas follows 
on June 22, 1879: “I have been at some little trouble to inquire regard- 
ing the extentof the distribution of the Cicada septendecim in this State 
at the present,and learn that it is general throughout the central counties. 
I have positive information of their occurrence in Lyon, Morris, Chase, 
Marion, Greenwood, Cottey, Osage, and Woodson Counties, wherever 
there are belts of timber.” The following reports refer to localities in 
Kansas not mentioned by Mr. Milliken: Mr. J. Paulsen, Fort Scott, Bour- 
bon County (card of June 16, 1879), states that they were in great num- 
bers at his place, injuring apple trees. I’rom the same County they are re- 
ported by Mr. G. C. Willey, of Uniontown (letter of June 20, 1879), stating 
that the Cicadas are in the timber skirting the streams in his County, 
and that ‘ their number is beyond the comprehension of man.” Mr. J. 
F. Willard (card of June 20, 1879) briefly recorded them from near Alma, 
Wabaunsee County, and near Louisville, Pottawatomie County. Mr. M. 
J. Burdge (card of June 25, 1879) stated that the Cicadas made their ap- 
pearance in the timber along the streams in Johnson County. Fimally, 
Mr. J. C. Harrun, of Humboldt, Allen Couuty, wrote (June 14, 1879): 
“There are great numbers of the Cicadas along the Neosho and other 
rivers, in the timber belts, and a few have found their way to the hedges 
on the prairies.” It will be seen that these localities form a nearly com- 
pact region in the eastern third of Kansas, and there can hardly be any 
doubt that this brood occupies also the extreme northern and southern 
counties in the same section of the State. 
The northernmost point reached by this brood, so far as now estab- 
lished, appears to be Pottawattamie County, Lowa, in which State, ac- 
cording to Prof. C. E. Bessey (vide his map in the Amer. Entom., IU, p. 
27), it occupies the eight counties comprising the southwestern corner 
of the State. 
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